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Wheeler launched a Breast Health Patient Navigation program in partnership with Susan G. Komen® Southern New England and Bristol Hospital's Beekley Center for Breast Health & Wellness. The program, funded by a $76,930 grant from Komen Southern New England, includes the addition of a breast health patient navigator to significantly increase breast health outreach to underserved residents in the Greater Bristol and New Britain communities. The grant supporting the Breast Health Patient Navigation Program is one of 14 awarded by the local Komen affiliate this year.

The patient navigation program, based at the Wheeler Health & Wellness Center at 10 North Main Street,...

State health officials are gauging hospitals' readiness for an Ebola case, communicating with thousands of doctors, school nurses and other providers about preparation and response, and honing a message to the public that would inform but not needlessly...

New Englanders in the colonial era imbibed considerably more alcohol than their modern day heirs. Colonists began their morning meal with hard cider, drank beer with their midday meal and continued to drink throughout the day, opting for spirits as the...

Connecticut is one of five states in the country to receive a five-year Community of Practice Grant, which examines the process of improving supports to individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families across the span of their lifetime. The...

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A recent national survey found that nearly 18 percent of Connecticut 12- to 17-year-olds used alcohol in the previous month, the highest rate in the country.
Youth alcohol use is more common in the northeast than anywhere else in...

Connecticut, along with the nation, is heading into the Affordable Care Act's second open enrollment period starting Nov. 15. What's troubling is that our state has no public plan for linking consumers with the in-person assistance that was available a...

If Connecticut were a high school student, she might be considered an aloof teenager with a generous allowance and a drug problem.
That's the image, anyway, that recent surveys are giving this state. A snapshot:
Living well. A new federal report shows...

Insurance companies may not limit the number of doctor visits to treat autism, the Connecticut Insurance Department said in a bulletin this week.The Affordable Care Act passed by Congress in 2010 prohibits a dollar limit on benefits in a health, including...

Health insurers owe $3 million in refunds to Connecticut consumers or their employers this summer because of a provision in the sweeping insurance reform law passed by Congress in 2010, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Health...

State Sen. Leonard Fasano is asking for a summer meeting of Connecticut's health insurance exchange to address what he said are problems that have come to light in recent weeks.Fasano, R-North Haven, sent a letter Tuesday to Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, who...

With rules on small business Obamacare health coverage creating ongoing confusion, the Community Economic Development Fund is hosting a free presentation next week for small business owners on the Affordable Care Act. The meeting is from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30...

When parents dream of a future for their children, it doesn't include diabetes, strokes, heart disease, osteoarthritis or several types of cancers. Those are a few of the severe ailments that the federal Centers for Disease Control attribute to adult...

Two big issues dogging the rollout of Obamacare have come into focus this week as the Connecticut insurance commissioner met with President Obama on the sticky question of insurers dropping health plans, and the state's exchange gave a breakdown that...

If an elderly patient is hospitalized for three days, she and her family need to know whether it's as an inpatient or outpatient. Has she been admitted? Or is she under observation?
The difference is crucial. If it's the latter, the patient and her...

Insurance companies have sent out notices of their plans to cancel policies by the end of the year for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have individual coverage. The companies have blamed mandates for more generous benefits under Obamacare for...

Last week was amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government expressing shock about such government's large capacity for misbehavior.
And, entertainingly, the answer to the question "Will Barack Obama's...

A Connecticut health exchange that is set to offer insurance plans on Oct. 1 will be equipped to cater to small businesses on that date, despite a federal extension that allows state exchanges to delay until 2015 the implementation of a Small Business...

Connecticut's newly formed health insurance co-op has contracted with Altruista Health Inc. of Reston, Va., to provide the co-op with software that will identify the sickest patients who are in the greatest need of a disease management or care...

The state Insurance Department approved an insurance license for HealthyCT, allowing the new nonprofit to sell health plans in Connecticut, the nonprofit and department said Tuesday.HealthyCT is a federally recognized Consumer-Operated and Oriented...

Back when I was in high school, I was sprung free for three months to work full-time at the county court house, where the boss gave me a thigh-high stack of forms people had to fill out. Cut this down to a few pages, he said. It's too much red tape.
I...